Hamed Bakayoko

Within his own circle Ouattara appears to be moving to position his Internal Affairs and Security Minister Hamed Bakayoko as successor...

Côte d'Ivoire's Security Minister Hamed Bakayoko and ADO's brother Presidential Affairs Minister Ibrahim Ouattara (aka 'Photocopie' for his likeness to his elder brother) also went along...

On 3 April Interior and Security Minister Hamed Bakayoko gave 200 million CFA francs (US$400 000) to communities in Cavally and neighbouring Guémon for reconstruction after the civil war...

The source claims that Blé Goudé is also in contact with Interior Minister Hamed Bakayoko...

Other names likely to stand out during the elections include Minister of Economic Infrastructure Patrick Achi and Interior Minister Hamed Bakayoko...

In the RDR there are increasingly public spats between the leader Ouattara and the Prime Minister’s Special Advisor Hamed Bakayoko who is hugely popular with the party’s youth...

As well as Ouattara the RDR fielded party Secretary General Henriette Dagri Diabaté who told Africa Confidential the security was 'like a boarding school' deputy Secretary General Amadou Gon Coulibaly academic and party official Ibrahim Bacongo Cissé and Hamed Bakayoko director of RDR newspaper Le Patriote...

The Generals are still in Abidjan but the other three have been allowed out - Louis-André Dacoury Tabley of Gbagbo's Front Populaire Ivoirien who advocates an alliance with the RDR; Bamba Morifere leader of the Parti pour le Progrès et le Socialisme (PPS); and Radio Nostalgie's Director Hamed Bakayoko...

Even Abidjan's favourite pop-music station Radio Nostalgie run by the popular Hamed Bakayoko who is close to Ouattara was briefly taken off the air last month because its news bulletins were 'too long'...